Paralysis Patients Have New Hope, and More

6/27/2014 12:00PM

On Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero, new hope for paralysis patients, how the U.S. stacks up against Belgium in the World Cup, what adults learn from ailing parents, Boston Ballet's new program and the history of the kimono. Photo: OSU Medical Center

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Hart recently became the first paralyzed individuals control his own hands will ... take a lot ... how monumental this development for millions in paralyzed patients across the country joining us now is Chad Bruton and inventor of the narrow bridge technology sch and the lead researcher at Patel the research firm partnered with Ohio State University's Western Medical Center ... to test their outrage ... that thanks much for being with us ... thank you ... so why how what a moment that was pretty and ... as he was able to manipulate his hand for the first time he described as response ... oh yes you tell ... user excited ... to make that weren't set for work and his father was sitting out just right next to him and does so he was moved to swell is ... incredible that hundreds of technology work we talked about and then allow ... signals from rain to maneuver paralyzed limbs ... yes exactly and that's the it sector projects so here is that so we started to ... get started working on this number of years ago ... and ... in fact it we we stayed years is looking to bring signals from folks and their allies ... and we have learned how to TECO those signals that we can actually interpreted to someone spots in terms of their movements ... so if someone would like to ... learn how to move there and again and that's a unions in the case ... it might be opening closes and a move his fingers again and so we learn how to actually interpret the spots when it was to do that ... so while they and credible and how long you been working on this technology and what else ... can expect to achieve ... a branch ... well so we've been working on it for almost ten years and nine churches struggle or that the data ... data from the brain ... and then ... a few years ago we started developing the rest of the system that allows us to battle the bypass auto cord injury but in the future we would like to actually ... book and helping folks that have dramatic brain injury ... and other types of neurological disorders so we've been collaborating the last couple of years of legal status well but to do these types of clinical trials release the weekend it that's a steal and seventy million paralyzed Americans out there ... how significant is this development changing their lives ... in the near future ... well we received a lot of great feedback a lot of positive feedback and you know this we are in the early stages and we still have a lot of research in a lot of work to do ... up a weak open the coming years that we can really add to this technology ... and help folks that they're giving paralysis ... and we also are looking at a stroke rehabilitation and that's of course one of the leading causes paralysis ... and we really hope that we could open access down the road incredibly exciting thank you so much that at ... absolutely ... going to take a break and we come back on Lunch Break bought the more World Cup mania stay with us ... I ... back to lunch break I'm tiny Rivera out ... after decisive goal by Portugal's Cristiano in although the US will advance in the next round of the World Cup ... in and after a one nothing lost in Germany Thursday ... the U S team one day face an undefeated Belgium on Tuesday ... he missed a lot when the Belgians have too much for America's climb ... joining us for a closer look at someone who would no ... doubt a guess faced off against Portugal in two thousand and two World Cup for the U S men's national team ... and is currently a technical director for major League soccer here in York Jeff thank so much for joining us thanks on accretion of her stomach are you surprised at how Americans are just increasing the World Cup this year how into ally has been great to see a mean the public has really captured the hearts and minds of the loss of soccer people in this nation in ... the major League soccer than around ninety years going ons twentieth year in the next year and we have a number of players are playing with the national team from ... Michael Brown leaves Kyle Beckerman cement these are so which is this evolution of the sport's great is very exciting I faced off against Portugal in two thousand and ten tax rate benefit of pride in other Cristiano in all this or that the size of golf well it certainly helped the sounded sort of shades of two thousand to wear in our last game ... South Korea v Portugal for us to dance through in this case Portugal ... become for us to advance through that ... overly accrues five at ten am one of them coming up on Tuesday what you think the chances that the DST ... will make no mistake about it Belgium is a very very talented team but I think we've got ... enough depth enough talent to get through the two ... at the heart about though the World Cup in general the had a lot of surprises namely stains out ... about ... it and tell us what I'll surprise him Will coaster Rica the copycat teams in particular coaster Rica Mexico the US ... Honduras hasn't fared quite as well ... the coaster Rica going through that group of Italy England ... and Europe away as the winner I think was was the real surprise was great to see ... teams from this region advance and do well ISNA said the U S have a chance against the ... rate of say an assist and that's the point that ... SANM SEO and they did if it doesn't what's next when they face the next twelve minutes the number of different the opponents I mean it that we don't look further than than the Belgian gimmick the the whole team is is really concentrating on that one game so ... at this point it's Belgium only our I'll let's look forward to that Jeff thank you so much for joining us today ... caring for an aging ailing parents can be a life changing event be on ... the sadness and suffering caregiving children often find they have a lot to learn from her parents ... about toughness has some errands and love ... doubly SJ contributor came Chifflet shares what you need to know about your aging parents ... I gave thing so much for joining us it is ... today he you've had personal experience with a stop at ... giving we move were overdue for you give the big show ... we've moved into marble Durbin ... Wood threw out the spare room with a bed ... and the first lesson you say you learned it is that older people are surprisingly top ... of the live without ... for example where former ... during the ... program would move didn't have an area that before but I was a bit of a group of people are willing to eighty seven ... but the hospital employees ... they discovered his appendix Incorporated for five days before ... and you've complained about ... the with the doctor to mention from the shoulder of this fall ... the move in here he was extremely pro yield of ... three bewildered ... that you really taken hold Google's of inflation ... but we don't ... work with and we spent a lot of food the ... term of the softening of being held on for ... years with all due to the far left to go ... so the demand sad ... that some particularly difficult elements to deal ... any deal that would give advice for others who may be going through that without impairments that terrible winter ... there's no way around to that of ... 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Ch ... please ... write a thank you so much that ... for two ... take a ... break and we come back we have the artistic director of the Boston Ballet joining us stay with us ... CSC's ... I ... Ch ... I ... was ... I ... that ... William Forsythe ballet in the second detail performed by the Boston Ballet company is enjoying um I'm not fiftieth anniversary ... taking them from a successful London court here in New York where they are currently performing at Lincoln Center was the cutting edge programs ... excited that even the most sophisticated dance audiences ... me counties than in the artistic director credited with turning the once struggling regional ballet company and one of international renown ... joins us today ... have you here thank you for having your taste in ballet eight and runs from the classical to the cunning and it's very eclectic ... very exciting tell us about your vision for the company ... will I think ... as the Boeing company I think it's very important that we were percent dance of some artful pull together ... and be relevant to today's people and done ... Stifel is for me it's very exciting to do the classics to the bouncer drop the public really ... also to push the bombers to be relevant to today's people endorse the neck or African you're excited about right now they are featuring will this so ... aunts and a cool and very fresh thirty old sweet ... enormous also Martinez who is doing is so ... debuted in North America and a ... thinned as the Bulls names that will be part of the future has had to guess unaccounted for Monday night in the act when it was not a lot so I didn't and as happy and Bausch dance Theater ... we don't see a lot of that here in the U S it's very exciting ... the Bulger isn't going out on ... and what's your professional background before coming to Boston ... I was a professional dancer for twenty years those opinions perusal of the essence of this cabal and before that I danced in your open and then ... it's natural because the simple artistic directors absolutely now ... as you know we've talked before I have a dance background as well and I have to say in the high end of the dance insiders ... are pleasantly surprised at how cutting and ... your program in your repertoire is we would all worried ... in Boston that the regional audiences might not be ready ... will you know it it started with a little bit of an expose of right now it still puts it ... it's a Hideaway Olam fastest growing audience is our people come through that door ... and all the classical balance and then ... everybody starts cross pollinated with his twisted into two and half if you really have turned around ... the company you came in two thousand and two that I did with the struggling a well respected ... but struggling regional ballet company and now we've turned it into an international player on the dance scene ... how do you go about doing it ... will all go one step of the time like this that a very different vision is really on ... I wanted to do something for the art form with the wheel new Zealand altitudes but the two leading piano for today's people go out ... meet or something that ... gives them something new and ... lets them look of themselves and is all this off financially viable as well and I have a very close and supportive relationship with the company reported correctly have incredible oh boy and you know nonprofit arts they look moneymakers so ... we work very hard to keep ... keep the money coming in but of the same time it's not it's what small commission based work at the very exciting make a nice and thank you so much for being with us today and congratulations on that program in Iraq and thanks the songs ... playlist Oracle garment capture the imagination the way the chemo no doubt as the now a new exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of art ... explores the no nos evolution ... joining us tonight it tells about is doubly SJ fashion reporter Christina Binkley ... high Kristina things for being with us ... they've done yet ... so Christina Moto has a fascinating history doesn't differ much period ... in Japan's history doesn't originate ... we know it seems to go that way to go way back into ancient history they were wearing an the seventeenth century but they were really closely regarded BBQ most of it ... a competitive ... focus between the merchant class which is getting very wealthy and the ruling aam samurai classes ... so this history as a status symbol has been set ... checking for the can I not have caused some problems that the haze has happened ... yet when I was shocked to learn that a day on because of this competition be the ruling classes started ... making rules for who could wear white collars and what patterns and kimono so that's why there's a lot of red underwear in the eighteenth century ... Japan the merchant started wearing red in their underwear because they couldn't open the Komodo I love ... so the as always be on display at the nineties in my ... the much later that fascinates me about this particular exhibition that doesn't ... largely twentieth century you will that into the nineteenth century ... I've Komodo and they were not these beautiful looking to work and the pieces that we generally seen exhibitions this kimono are worn by ladies who shot to department stores so the the the work isn't this funny that you start you see them incorporating the modern world there's a kimono when they're that based on Sputnik and the fact that from the fifteen so we see ... Western influence coming in a new start to see women going ... on in to work with things they were thinking about it and then coming in incorporating that into the kimono that they were wearing ... still blaring loud ... actually wearing it as office and work with ... well I love estimates today but there was a kid ... in transition where with some women were still wanting to be traditional in a world where to claim the early half of the twentieth century they were still wearing these Komodo but they were again department store kimono not the fancy things it wasn't for ceremonial use this is what you cooked dinner and then they even went to work ... and tell us about your favorite fabrics and friends mean and this one ... but it just blew me away and that that I thought that sounded so cute she when I heard about it but it was to be ugly it's actually a truly beautiful ... piece of work is one that I've that I'd ... to me it looked like polka dot timidity of the good people who are knowledgeable about these things ... were able to trace back the origins of what looks like polka dots ... to on that you into a very ancient style of cricket was used in in that in all the content in a really fine ones ... there's a lot of very graphic prints actually in a mid century modern ... conference that you'll find in the ... mid century modern meets ... the eye ... at ... the ... Gray went to an active let's take today and I knew that thanks for watching ... to see you back here on Monday and have a great weekend ... I ...